Massimo Giordano has been acclaimed at most of the leading opera houses in the world such as such the Royal Opera House – Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Rome Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Zürich Opera House, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and many others. In the 2018/19 season, Giordano made his debut at both the Staatstheater Stuttgart and Polish National Opera in Warsaw as Cavaradossi in Tosca, a role which he also sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea. He later returned to the Berlin State Opera as Alfredo in La Traviata, appeared as Pollione in Norma with the Moscow State Philharmonic Society and Oper Stuttgart and made his role debut as Ismaele in Nabucco at the Semperoper Dresden. Next season, the tenor will debut in the title role of Don Carlos in Stuttgart, appear for the first time at the Greek National Opera in Athens as the title role in Werther and sing Cavaradossi in Lyon.

Giordano began the 2017/18 season with his first performances of Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the Hamburg State Opera, after which he returned to Covent Garden, the Rome Opera and the Vienna State Opera as Cavaradossi. The tenor also made his debut at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg as the title role in Werther and joined the Opéra de Lyon as Foresto in concert performances of Attila in Lyon and Paris. Other concert performances included La boheme with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

Massimo Giordano studied flute and voice at the Conservatorio G. Tartini in Trieste and completed his vocal studies under Cecilia Fusco. After winning numerous vocal competitions, Giordano made his professional debut in 1997 as the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito in Spoleto. In 2001, he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Verdi’s Il Giorno di Regno and at the Salzburg Festival as Fenton in Falstaff (under Claudio Abbado and later under Lorin Maazel).

Giordano often performs in concert and has sung Verdi’s Requiem under Riccardo Chailly in Amsterdam, Toulouse, Vienna, Dresden and Budapest, under Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv, and under Gianluigi Gelmetti in Rome and Sydney. He has also worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Alain Guingal, Gabriele Ferro and Michel Plasson and with such stage directors as Declan Donnellan, Alberto Fassini, Pierluigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick, and Franco Zeffirelli.